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Private hospital faulted after surgeon uses unsterilised drill

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Monday 9 August 2021, 04:46 PM
Surgery
A woman’s knee was operated on using an unsterilised drill bit
“It was the private hospital’s responsibility to have processes and practices in place to ensure instruments brought into the operating theatre were c
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